Željko Ivanek.
Peter MacNicol's pretty high on my list, too. From the female side, Allison Janney.
Peter MacNicol's pretty high on my list, too. From the female side, Allison Janney.
Favorite Character Actor?
Up there? Who's better in the character actor game right now?Vader182 wrote:yeah he's getting up thereAllstar wrote:
-Vader
It's astonishing how much people don't know what a character actor is.
What is it? Because I'm pretty damn sure Ben Men fits the bill.ArmandFancypants wrote:It's astonishing how much people don't know what a character actor is.
In the classic sense a character actor is an actor who plays a type, so most definitely not Mendelsohn who plays a very different role each time and is someone you would call an... actor.
Character actors are like Philip Baker Hall, James Rebhorn, James Karen, Margo Martindale, June Squibb, Octavia Spencer. You see their name in the opening credits and you can pretty much guess what they're going to do when they show up, and that is play a specific type of character.
That's what it used to be anyway.
Character actors are like Philip Baker Hall, James Rebhorn, James Karen, Margo Martindale, June Squibb, Octavia Spencer. You see their name in the opening credits and you can pretty much guess what they're going to do when they show up, and that is play a specific type of character.
That's what it used to be anyway.
I think Ben Men fits this description quite well.char·ac·ter ac·tor
noun
an actor who specializes in playing eccentric or unusual people rather than leading roles.
Yeah, 'cause he never plays leading roles...
These people are 'almost unrecognizable from part to part, and yet play many, many roles convincingly and memorably.'
From what I've seen of Mendelsohn, he qualifies.
From what I've seen of Mendelsohn, he qualifies.
